| Judging by the rankness of the floor and the roughness of the shadows, Peter suspected that he was in some sort of cave. |
| Padlin felt cool, wet air against his cheeks and he caught the rankness of the East River. |
| Their flesh has no rankness, nor is inferiour in flavour to our common venison. |
| Its flesh is white and delicate, and has the usual taste, without any rankness. |
| And the rankness of the growth of this evil is not more startling than its rapidity. |
| It produces uncomfortable images, which arouse notions of unutterable things, and exude the odour of lechery and rankness. |
